Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7
3 months ago
"You've probably also noticed Silicon Valley's enthusiasm to find applications for this tech."
A "solution" looking for a "problem". Like cryptocurrency. Like the "metaverse". And so on.
When the "solution" brings new problems SillyCon Valley then proclaims they have a solution to the problem they created.
"Even if these firms don't quite know how AI will be useful to their customers, they've already decided that models are the future."
More often than not the "customers" are advertisers. Other computer users are just ad targets.
"Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems."
"A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or colloquially, crypto, is a digital currency designed to work through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it."
"The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact,^[1] usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection."
"Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge."
"Petroleum is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture."
(Definitions taken from one of ChatGPTS's primary training sources.)
A careful reader is expected to notice the first three have some charactersitics in common, specifically ones that the last two do not.
GenAI (and LLMs in particular) is a "solution looking for a problem" in the sense petroleum or electricity was, not in the sense cryptocurrency is. I.e. you take one look at it and it's 100% obvious it's a general technology that's going to be useful in some way for all kinds of work people do, and be doing in the near future, and itself will make possible things and endeavors that weren't possible before.
The devil is always in the details, but assuming that GenAI might be important for your business is correct no matter what business you're in, so it's worth it to pay attention and test it sooner rather than later.